World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 from Hardsuit Labs

[Vincente]

Blocks your path.

 

[Grimnir]

I know it's hard to judge by one video but still, where is that shine from the original?

All Unreal and Unity games look the same.

From a mod. The vanilla npcs have soulless dead eyes.

 

[CyberWhale]

Mitsoda should grow up and lose the gloves. The eye-glow mod looks neat, although Source was pretty much famous for having great facial animations (when the developers decided to put enough work into them, of course).

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Facial animations, as anything else, benefit from some constraints. Used appropriately and with measure they achieve better effect, very much like HL2 used them.

 

[Zombra]

Facial animations, as anything else, benefit from some constraints. Used appropriately and with measure they achieve better effect, very much like HL2 used them.

Agree ... but in Bloodlines, they were used in a way that was entirely appropriate for the intended atmosphere. You think they just forgot that they could have made the NPCs stand stiffly and expressionless like statues?

 

[Ibn Sina]

Wtf are those finishing moves... Does becoming a vampire also teaches you to become an ultra parkour/break dancer?

 

[Okagron]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Having played the game this year i can say this is an huge crock of fucking bullshit. The only characters that even do the seductive eyebrow wiggling are the appropriate ones like Venus, VV and Jeanette. Therese Voerman doesn't even do it (or at least i didn't noticed), she always has a stern face of a someone doing business.

Show me examples of every character doing this, or else i'm gonna continue calling this bullshit.

 

[ZVERMIX]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

I'd like to think it's part of his rock/goth look to show us he's still as edgy and non-conformist as back in the day.
Most likely though, he's got psoriasis/eczema or severe allergies

 

[Background Character]

This all looks like shit

Please make the pain stop

 

[Fairfax]

The trailer made me realize how fucking great Source engine is for facial animation. Holy shit. How come not a single one could get above that level?

Valve created the best facial animation tool ever because facial animations were really important for the kinds of cinematic shooters they wanted to make. Everyone else just uses FaceFX middleware, which gets the job done, but a ton of not-worth-it-usually additional effort has to be made to get them on par (e.g. the difference between Deus Ex Human Revolution's usual dialogues and the extra special dialogue battles).

I believe Troika actually improved the already good system that Valve had for HL2, because as the latter would mainly be used in scripted scenes, Troika made theirs available using simple commands during dialogues or scripted scenes or cutscenes to reflect these dispositions and more: Neutral [1] Anger [1,2,3] Joy [1,2,3] Sad [1,2,3] Fear [1,2] Disgust [1] Apathy [1] Flirtatious [1] Confused [1] The command inside a dialogue file would look like this: npc.SetDisposition("Flirt",1)

These are just Expressions created with Faceposer. Troika made their own set and used that command to trigger the appropriate expression during scenes. The interface looks like this:

 

[Belegarsson]

 

[Nano]

One minute into the video, there's a new version of the unused Downtown music playing. Nice.

 

[Alienman]

Why do they always let the most incompetent player in the world do these videos?

 

[Wunderbar]

In the latest interview, Mitsoda says the voice actors are "the perfect cast," and "people are gonna be so psyched when they see the list of voice actors."

shit, it's Keanu Reeves!

 

[Yosharian]

Obfuscate doesn't work against cameras or other technological methods, it's jedi mind trick and not actual invisibility (or changing shape or the sort, it's all just a telepathic override on the senses of observers).

Honestly I think Nosferatu would just kill fledglings who use Obfuscate instead of learning to ninja shit properly.

Can we pay the Nosferatu to deal with the people responsible for this sequel?

(LEGAL DISCLAIMER: JUST A JOKE NOT AN ACTUAL CALL TO VIOLENCE DON'T SUE ME)

 

[sullynathan]

Non IGN shit



I have the original on STEAM, Should I play it or hold off on something else?

 

[Yosharian]

I have the original on STEAM, Should I play it or hold off on something else?

Why wouldn't you play it?

 

[AwesomeButton]

These are just Expressions created with Faceposer. Troika made their own set and used that command to trigger the appropriate expression during scenes. The interface looks like this:

Lol, I wish we could import these as Codex avatars. The game is looking pretty positive, although I haven't watched the latest videos.

BTW, I also never played the original, my PC was too weak to handle Source at the time. And I have the game on GoG.

 

[Alienman]

It's the same video sullynathan

Chicks going "what is happening?" while being smacked in the head by a steel-pipe

The gameplay looks rough as hell.

 

[Abu Antar]

Non IGN shit



I have the original on STEAM, Should I play it or hold off on something else?

Both of these videos actually made me more optimistic about the game. Combat looks just as bad as the first game, though.

sullynathan The original is one of my favorite games. Play it.

 

[AMysteriousStranger]

The fuck is wrong with the person who was playing the demo? Were they in the middle of a seizure or something?

 

[sullynathan]

Why wouldn't you play it?

time

 

[Vibalist]

Looks cool. But the protagonist is a very powerful Thin Blood indeed.

 

[Zombra]

It's the same video sullynathan
Chicks going "what is happening?" while being smacked in the head by a steel-pipe
The gameplay looks rough as hell.

The combat barks are really bad, not to mention the sound design. It sounds like an actor is standing in a booth reading off a sheet of paper. I really want these devs to play Condemned ... audio like that is what they need for this kind of combat. Well, pre-alpha and all that.

I also did hate the dialogue from the quest giver. "I am going to give you a quest. During this quest you will have an objective. I will now tell you what that objective is." Jesus christ.

How many different characters did Mitsoda voice? I counted at least 5

 

[Jimmious]

Looks cool. But the protagonist is a very powerful Thin Blood indeed.

I doubt the protagonist will remain Thin Blood for long